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Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of several volumes of poetry, as well as the nonfiction books The Devil’s Highway, a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and Across the Wire. He teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
May 25, 2023 · In “Good Night, Irene,” Luis Alberto Urrea, who is best known for “The Devil’s Highway” — his devastating account of 14 men who died attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border ...
The Water Museum. American Academy of Arts & Letters Literature Award, 2017 Finalist PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award, 2016. From one of America’s preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called “wickedly good” (Kansas City Star), “cinematic and charged ...
Luis Alberto Urrea (Chair) is a Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the bestselling author of 18 books. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, and an Edgar Award. His most recent book, The House of Broken Angels was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a National Book Critics ...
Mar 5, 2018 · Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels borrows from the story of his older brother, who died of cancer. He says the book went through a dramatic rewrite after Trump became president.
May 22, 2023 · Luis Alberto Urrea is a fellow baby boomer with a different World War II inheritance. His mother served as a Red Cross volunteer in an outfit called the Clubmobile corps, providing donuts, coffee ...
Available now hardcover, paperback, for your e-reader and as a downloadable audiobook, read by Luis. In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil’s Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so ...
